Xuanyu Zhang

Xuanyu Zhang

Senior Researcher

Short Bio

I am a senior researcher at DXM AI Lab. Previously, I obtained my master’s degree from Beijing Normal University. I was also an intern at Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft Xiaoice, Tencent Wechat and 360 Search. I am broadly interested in Natural Language Processing (Large Language Model, Question Answering, Machine Reading Comprehension, Semantic Parsing, Generation), Recommendation System (Sequential Recommendation, User Modeling), Information Retrieval and Multi-Modal (Vision & Language), etc.

News

  • February 2021: Our team “Xuanyu Zhang - AI-Lab, DXM” won the championship at the leaderboard of MS MARCO Document Ranking. The model “DML” achieves 0.416 MRR on the eval set, which has been greatly improved compared with the previous model. [Tweet from MS MARCO]
  • February 2021: One paper on recommendation got accepted to WWW’21 companion.
  • July 2021: One paper on multi-modal got accepted to ACM MM’21.
  • August 2021: One paper on ranking got accepted to CIKM’21.
  • December 2021: We won the championship at the classification leaderboard of CLUE (Chinese Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark) with our proposed XuanYuan PLM. [CLUE Benchmark]
  • December 2021: Our XuanYuan model, based on standard pipeline, surpassed other PLMs at the leaderboard of KgCLUE (Large-scale Knowledge Graph based QA Benchmark) on Dec 15, 2021.
  • April 2022: We won the championship at the ogbl-wikikg2 leaderboard with our proposed TranS model. [Leaderboard] [Paper] [Code]
  • August 2022: One full paper on recommendation got accepted to CIKM’22.
  • October 2022: Two papers on knowledge graph and prompt learning got accepted to findings of EMNLP’22.
  • May 2023: One paper on long-sequence Transformer got accepted to findings of ACL’23.
  • May 2023: We open-sourced XuanYuan 2.0, the first Chinese financial chat model with hundreds of billions parameters. [Huggingface]
  • August 2023: One paper on large language models got accepted to CIKM’23.
  • New August 2023: We won the outstanding paper award at IJCAI—FinLLM’23.

Publications & Competitions

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Awards

  • National Scholarship
  • Huawei Scholarship
  • Outstanding Graduate in Beijing
  • Outstanding Graduate in Beijing Normal University
  • China Youth Scientific and Technological Innovation Award (Xiaoping Deng Award)

Community Service

  • SPC/PC/Reviewer: ACL, EMNLP, NLPCC, AAAI, CIKM, IEEE TNNLS, ARR (ACL Rolling Review)
  • Student Volunteer: ACL 2019